Work efficiently from anywhere

People can log in and work on the same files and applications wherever there is internet access. This is a huge benefit where staff are in separate offices, travel a lot or simply want to work from home more. Collaboration becomes quick and easy, because files are saved in shared folders and updated in real time. No more emailing documents around. Wherever people are, they’re all accessing a single version of the document, database or spreadsheet.

Save money & stay current

With cloud services, you pay only for what you use. A simple monthly fee replaces ad-hoc expenditure on expensive infrastructure items such as software upgrades and new servers, easing budgeting and freeing up cash for investment. Software is constantly updated; you never need to worry about aging or overloaded servers, and server maintenance and anti-virus costs disappear.

Protecting you from the worst

Many businesses see cloud computing as an essential part of their business continuity plans. Whatever’s hosted in the cloud won’t be affected by fire, flood, server crash or any other disaster that strikes your office or your systems. Your data and applications are safe. Simply log in from wherever’s most convenient and carry on as normal.

What is it?

Dynamics 365 is a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system that mainly focuses on sales and marketing and is often used in the service industry as a service desk or helpdesk. There is a huge amount of customisation that can be applied to the product to suit individual business requirements.

How does it benefit my business?

There are number of benefits to your business in using Dynamics 365. The CRM aspect is an approach to manage your business interactions with your current and potential clients in one place and holds historical data on your clients and the correspondence you have had with them. It allows you to focus on the data and the analysis of this meaning you can focus on customer retention and ultimately drive sales and growth.

What is it?

SharePoint is a browser-based collaboration and document management platform. It allows you to store, not only documents, but also design applications and workflows to manage the flow of data and tasks through your business.

How does it benefit my business?

SharePoint enables you to dispense with your onsite document storage server and enables you to securely access and share your documents wherever you are and on whatever device you like.

It helps you meet Regulatory Requirements by ensuring your sensitive business information can be controlled and managed effectively. And, you can reduce litigation risk for your organization. Most Office 365 plans apart from the most basic, come with SharePoint as part of the service offering.

What is it?

Delve Analytics provides insight into two of the most important factors in personal productivity: How you spend your time and who you spend your time with.

How does it benefit my business?

MyAnalytics helps you understand how you communicate and spend your time at work. Set your own goals and let MyAnalytics measure your progress.

Your personal dashboard in MyAnalytics helps you understand how you communicate and spend your time at work. You can set weekly goals for different areas such as time spent in meetings and focus time, and then measure your progress towards these goals. You’ll get tips that can help you prioritize your work and spend your time more effectively.

What is it?

Microsoft Office 365 is a name that Microsoft uses for a collection of its software and service subscriptions. Bundled together they provide businesses with productivity software and related services.

How does it benefit my business?

There are a vast number of applications that are available within the Office 365 suite and these are continually being added to by Microsoft. Businesses are able to custom build applications to suit their specific business operations with , for example, Power Apps where you can build a HR system or Stock control system.

What is it?

Power BI (Business Intelligence) is a cloud-based business analytics service that enables anyone to visualise and analyse data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding. It connects users to a broad range of data sets through easy-to-use dashboards, interactive reports, and compelling visualisations that bring data to life instantly.

How does it benefit my business?

Power BI allows you to pull data from all your systems and spreadsheets and present it in a friendly and graphical way. It is far more powerful than Excel and will speed up analysis of data. This data is then accessible on mobile devices and dashboards for other members of staff. It is easy to ask queries and the information is immediately available: for example, ‘How many companies do we do business with that are in central Manchester?’ or ‘What is my top selling product?’ – the results will be displayed.

What is it?

Skype for Business lets you connect with co-workers or business partners in your company or around the world.

How does it benefit my business?

Skype for Business is a different product to Standard Skype but you can message between the two systems. It allows you to

• Start conversations with IM, voice, or video calls.
• See when your contacts are available online, in a meeting, or presenting.
• Set industrial-strength security for meetings.
• Broadcast online to a large audience.
• Present your screen during meetings or give control to others.
• Use Skype for Business in other Office programs to chat, call, or join a meeting with a click
• It also can become your phone with an Enterprise E5 plan.

What is it?

Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite is built on the following Microsoft cloud platforms: Azure Active Directory Premium for identity rights management. Microsoft Intune for MDM and mobile application management (MAM) Azure Rights Management for document and data security.

Whats included:
1.) Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium (manages usernames and passwords)
2.) Microsoft Intune (manages the device that is being used to access corporate data)
3.) Microsoft Azure Rights Management (manages the data that lives on your devices)
4.) Microsoft Advance Threat Analytics (analyses patterns and the activity of where people are accessing your data from)

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What is it?

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft Cloud computing platform and infrastructure that is used for hosting, building, managing and deploying services and applications through Microsoft global network of data centres.

How does it benefit my business?

There are a huge number of benefits that Azure services can bring to your business. What Azure does is effectively increases productivity allowing your business to achieve more, faster whilst saving money. One of the great benefits are that Azure allows your business to scale as you need to and pay as you go.

What is it?

Yammer is essentially a social network that’s entirely focused on your business. For an individual to join Yammer they must have a working email address from your company’s domain. You can also setup external Yammer groups so suppliers for example could access required information.

How does it benefit my business?

Business that have started to use Yammer in daily operations have on average dropped email activity by 40%. Today email is overused and important information gets lost in the 100’s of emails that we receive each day. Yammer enables information to be published and allows people to read at leisure and also allows them to discuss and comment on information / images / documents / polls etc. You are also able to link into other companies Yammer feeds so as you can share and collaborate across businesses. It comes free with most Office 365 plans.

What is it?

This system manages your personal or corporate devices.

Key Features:

• Selective wipe (remove corporate data and leave personal data intact)
• Restrict access to corporate data / emails to only authorised devices or locations
• Manage and deploy applications to desktops and mobile devices
• Manage updates and patching of devices wherever they are

How does it benefit my business?

• Only authorised staff can access corporate email and systems on mobile devices or devices outside of the corporate network
• Ensure that all staff have any required applications on their phone (CRM, HR etc)
• You have the control to turn off features such as mobile cameras or screen shots, require passwords and device encryption for any device that has corporate data on it, you can even stop cut paste and copy to stop people from copying emails to personal accounts.
• You can securely wipe only corporate data from personal devices leaving personal pictures and apps untouched.
• Manage security patching of all devices wherever they are and block access to corporate data if they are deemed unsecure due to security patches not being up to date.